if you elect or reelect president obama, president obama will be pushing that direction to raise taxes on the top percentage, whatever that percentage he decides it's going to be, probably 250 or more. the reality is that's not going to give them any money, so he's going to have to raise taxes on a much larger percentage of americans if he really wants to get deficit reduction out of raising taxes. president romney will go in exactly the opposite direction. how do i feel about that? when i became mayor of new york city, i had a city that had a deficit of about $3 billion. read 10.5% unemployment. with 1.1 million people on welfare. we were coming to what was described as probably one of the reasons that i like it. i got elected because our economy was horrible and we just had 2000 murders in the two years before i ran for mayor. so i got elected as the first republican in 25 years in the first one to remain a republican and 50. [laughter] i got elected with a very, very simple and direct campaign slogan. you can't do any worse. [laughter] tommy how i can make things worse. could we go